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Is text a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (colloquial) Ellipsis of text message, a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones.Examples: "In the morning, you're vexed / He's on to the next / And you didn't even get no text"abbreviationalt-ofcolloquialcountableellipsisuncountable
2. (computing) Data which can be interpreted as human-readable text.Antonyms: binarycountableuncountable
3. (by extension) Anything chosen as the subject of an argument, literary composition, etc.Synonyms: topic, themebroadlycountableuncountable
4. (printing) A style of writing in large characters; also, a kind of type used in printing.Examples: "German text"Synonyms: text handcountableuncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To send a text message to; i.e. to transmit text using the Short Message Service (SMS), or a similar service, between communications devices, particularly mobile phones.Examples: "Just text me when you get here."; "I'll text the address to you as soon as I find it."Synonyms: message, SMStransitive
2. (intransitive) To send and receive text messages.Examples: "Have you been texting all afternoon?"intransitive
3. (dated) To write in large characters, as in text hand.Examples: "I wish / (Next to my part of Heav'n) that she would spend / The last part of her life so here, that all / Indifferent judges might condemn me for / A most malicious slanderer, nay, text it / Upon my forehead"; "The basic plan is simple. For the first two phrases the texted line is above the untexted; for the next two, bring us to the midpoint cadence, the texted line is for the most part lower; and the in the second half the texted material starts lower, moves into the upper position and finally occupies the bottom range again."dated
Definition source: Wiktionary